CODES AND CONVENTIONSOF POP

DEFINITION • Genre of popular music• Abbreviation of “popular” • Originated in its modern form in the 1950s, arising

from rock and roll • David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop

music as "a body of music which is distinguishable from popular, jazz and folk music.

• “Pop music" may be used to describe a distinct genre, aimed at a youth market, often characterized as a softer alternative to rock and roll.

INFLUENCES AND DEVELOPMENT

• Pop music has been dominated by the American and (from the mid-1960s) British music industries, whose influence has made pop music something of an international monoculture, but most regions and countries have their own form of pop music, sometimes producing local versions of wider trends, and lending them local characteristics. Some of these trends have had a significant impact of the development of the genre

SOUND

• Pop music has absorbed influences from most other genres of popular music. Early pop music drew on the sentimental ballad for its form, gained its use of vocal harmonies from gospel and soul music, instrumentation from jazz, country, and rock music, orchestration from classical music, tempo from dance music, backing from electronic music, rhythmic elements from hip-hop music, and has recently appropriated spoken passages from rap.

COSTUME

• Pop artists always look for fun, funky and fresh costumes to use giving them a unique edge.

• Most costume are reviling yet not too much with sequences and patterns and wild colours.

• Eye catching is the aim for the costumes the more unusual and quirky the costumes are the more the audience pays attention to them.

LOCATION

• In the pop industry the location is always creative with a plan background adding cool effects makes the whole scene more exciting or even using real life backgrounds such as a high school. Using effects and props are what the artist in the pop industry like to use creating very cool scenes with just a normal location.